The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - What Principles Would Guide the Administration at the Bargaining Table to Seek Concessions From Bargaining Units? How Would the Administration Determine What Terms to Impose on Bargaining Units That Do Not Come to an Agreement?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

MOU Analysis: Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Jan 30, 2023 - We repeatedly have raised concerns with the current prefunding strategy since the time the previous administration first proposed that the state and employees each pay one-half of the normal cost (see our initial response to the strategy; our comments on the labor agreements implementing the strategy for Units 6 , 9 , and Local 1000 ; and our 2020 analysis of the labor agreements that established PLP 2020).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4665

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Workers and Employers

Apr 5, 2022 - For example, the state could encourage employers to implement adaptation strategies, such as installing air conditioning units and shifting work hours to cooler parts of the day. Such adaptation strategies will range in costs and burden to employers and workers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4587

Labor Agreements: Bargaining Units 1, 3, 4, 6, 9, 11, 14, 15, 17, 20, AND 21

Jun 25, 2020 - We repeatedly have raised concerns with the current prefunding strategy since the time the previous administration first proposed that the state and employees each pay one-half of the normal cost to prefund the benefit (see our initial response to the strategy and our comments on the labor agreements implementing the strategy for Units 6 , 9 , and Local 1000).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4257

The 2022-23 Budget: UC Climate-Related Proposals

Feb 16, 2022 - Moreover, incubators are only one of many strategies that states and businesses can use to try to spur economic development. Additionally, once incubators are developed, it is difficult to prove that the affected entrepreneurs and businesses would not have otherwise emerged through other avenues.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4538

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Units 10 (Professional Scientists) and 18 (Psychiatric Technician)

Sep 9, 2025 - OPEB Prefunding State Other Post-Employment Benefits (OPEB) Prefunding Strategy. For most of the more than six decades that the state has offered its employees retiree health benefits, the state did not prefund the benefit but instead paid the cost on a pay-as-you-go basis after employees retired.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - The department informed us that (1) the working group did not meet and, consequently, did not produce any strategies to improve recruitment and retention of female staff but (2) the department independently has implemented strategies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

The 2022-23 Budget: Supply Chain and Port Infrastructure Proposals

Feb 15, 2022 - Long ‑Term Strategies. The  current supply chain disruptions are the result of both short ‑term issues, such as greater consumer demand, as well as long ‑term issues, such as the capacity and resilience of the goods movement system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4540

The 2020-21 Budget: Improving the State's Unpaid Wage Claim Process

Feb 19, 2020 - In recent years, the state has reimbursed legal aid nonprofits for their work guiding individuals through immigration and naturalization proceedings. The Legislature could consider a similar program for legal aid nonprofits and community groups that assist with wage claims.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4165

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 16 (Physicians, Dentists, and Podiatrists)

Jul 14, 2025 - We long have been critical of the state ’s retiree health prefunding strategy. We have found that establishing a benefit that fundamentally has no bearing on an employee ’s salary to be funded as a percentage of pay is overly complicated and creates risk that the benefit will not be fully funded by the target date.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064